Letters: Some appointee -- A financial manager who can't handle his own finances

Mar. 23, 2013

What! Our principal city is a financial mess. Our "tough nerd" governor, after weeks of public debate and argument, appoints a financial manager with extraordinary power to void contracts, overrule elected officials and bring the city back from the brink of financial disaster. And this financial manager turns out to be someone who can't manage his own finances. We deserve better! He "overlooked" a few liens. Come on, Gov. Snyder, the embarrassment continues, and we don't need it. Do your job.

James W. Cook

Westland

The new fox for Detroit

Detroit's newly appointed emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, says he is now paid up on liens filed on his Maryland home over unpaid taxes on child care for his two children. How does anyone forget that they owe thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes? It seems that Orr will fit right in with the culture of Detroit. Our governor picked the wrong fox to guard the chicken coop.

Robert Pegler

Plymouth

Way beyond belief

Kevyn Orr's unpaid liens on his house in Maryland are a huge red flag on his personal integrity! For four years, liens have been filed over nonpaid taxes and Orr didn't know about it? He's a lawyer who deals with financial issues (bankruptcy), and he doesn't pay any attention to his own taxes? This is way beyond belief!

Detroit needs someone with great personal integrity to lead us out of this mess, not another scofflaw like Kwame Kilpatrick.

Jack Farrow

Plymouth

Faith in bad accountants?

Yeah, if Kevyn Orr's personal accountant was so bad he got liens against Orr's house, how does our new data-driven financial manager figure he can rely on the data produced by accountants employed by the City of Detroit, Wayne County, Detroit Public Schools, etc.?